32-bit Easter Eggs – BASIC hidden in the ESP32 processor

Over on Hackaday, Elliot Williams details a very cool Easter Egg hidden in the ESP32: a BASIC interpreter. Apparently this is build in to the processor and not part of the on-board flash ROM either. Pull GPIO 12 high, reset the cpu and PRINT “HELLO WORLD” to your heart’s content! The interpreter claims to be derived from TinyBasic, so don’t expect too much from it, but you can access GPIOs, even though there’s no PEEK or POKE.